you guys asked for a solution to dial in your favourite apps anywhere you go. Now Halo is supposed to be simple and straight forward, we never liked this padding-everything-out-with-options business but a modular app is perhaps a nice way to do it.

It integrates well with todays alpha, that means added apps will not clutter your notification curtain. You'll see them through Halo.

Things that were changed in alpha5 are:

- style adaption- flicking through ongoing tasks gives you the message content, too- minor clean up and less resource usage

Its pretty minor.

Have fun with that app, it's basic but we can sure add functionality to it. We made it free btw and it works for all roms.﻿

+david marlatt khaosangell If I got it right, this will be a kind of add-on to those who already use the PA rom with Halo. It allows you to choose certain applications that will always be available in Halo, like messaging app or google talk.﻿

Oh, and they also stick to the notifications. That's something I'd like to be optional from +Paranoid Android, but just my 2 cents, I actually think it's good as it is, but the notifications get a little cluttered.﻿

dont ask, install. all questions will go away. this is just a convenience thing, nothing more. if you dont have halo it puts apps into your notification curtain. you may be cool with that you may be not. paranoid users wont get cluttered shades, they launch these apps via halo﻿

This update is minor but much needed. For example, if you have extended desktop on and you wanted to glimpse that your notifications, you can now do it! Such a simple addition that makes our lives better :) Good job PA team!﻿

+Paranoid Android Okay, so I installed the Halo app and it's really cool what you did there, the question I have is, do these nice vibrant icons that came after installing the Halo app replace the lack of icons even if we don't have anything added to the Halo App? What I mean is with Alpha 4 I get the gray and white blank face when I get a Gmail and the small white sms icon when I get a text, will the nice green smily SMS replace it and will the nice red and white gmail icon replace the blank spot when I get SMS or Gmail now that I have the Halo app installed?﻿

+cason bullock because the app does work in every ROM. "HALO))) adds any app you want as persistent notification." All you need to do is read the description. It doesn't say "adds halo to any rom" now does it?﻿

+Paranoid Android wow you guys are the tits!!!!! Question where can I report bugs at? Not with the app on play store just halo in general.. Just want to do my part to make sure everything gets working properly﻿

+Jeremy Kaminski the images are provided by the apps, we cant control them. HALO))) notifications use the app icons for their content. but none of it will have an impact on how other apps deliver the largeIcon﻿

+Paranoid Android Thanks, just one more question, is there anyway you guys might be able to at least give gmail a system icon when we get a notification instead of the blank smily face that goes in place of people in sms and phonecalls when they don't have a photo? It's kind of weird that Gmail shows that.﻿

+Steuart Lawrence GS3 is not and will never be officially supported by PA Team, why would you even ask this question, PA 3.5 Halo is still in alpha so the source is closed, this means nothing but Nexus Devices are getting it currently. You have to wait like every other unofficially supported device for the code to go open source.﻿

+ray holguin What device are you on? I know that maguro has not gotten an official release so there are certain issues that the rest of us with official Alpha 4 builds are not encountering. I have no problem with Sms or G+.﻿

In the videos showing how it works, the user drags to the notification they want, then releases, then taps the bubble to open it up. My phone does not wait for the tap but rather opens the notification upon release after dragging to select the desired notification. Is this supposed to happen?

Also, thanks for the always-awesome work you guys do and the persistent dedication to excellence. This week is only my first week with PA, but its quickly turning into my daily driver.﻿

+Lang Puteh There is no bubble for the other roms, it just gives you constant notifications on the bar. Please read a little before posting. This has already been explained. You DO NOT get Halo from the app, just the functionality of it in your statusbar.﻿

+Jeremy Kaminski i was asking in terms of the developer forms the guy maintaining for the d2att submitted to them almost a week ago and hasnt heard back yet. Not expecting official support just hoping for a port to get some of the love :( the i9000 or whatever its called has already gotten a port though i think that was due to other reasons. i understand it says could take a little while, just hoping. next phone will for sure be a nexus or oppo﻿

+Steuart Lawrence He hasn't heard back because GS3 is not officially supported so it will not get the code until the code is open source on the PA Github. There is nothing to be submitted, he simply has to wait like all the other non-supported devices for the code to be open-source. Any non-nexus devices besides the oppo that has gotten a port is simply a kanged port ripped from a supported device, it's not official code.﻿

ohhhh okay, wasn't too sure on how it worked, i just thought that by sumbitting they would wean out the maintainers so they might be able to start, guess i was under wrong impression, thanks for the heads up though :(﻿

+Paranoid Android Tasker is still (on alpha 5 version) crashing for me if I start it from Halo. It works fine if I start it from notification curtain or from my home screen or app drawer. Here is the logcat, I hope it helps: http://db.tt/83TtyqjQ
That's the only thing that's not working for me, everything else is awesome, I like the new HALO))) app :)﻿

+Dennis P you're a themer too... Follow my blog... Just won screenshot of the day last month and screenshot Sunday a month prior. Looking to out out uccws on play this month. Www.halluxandroiddesign.com﻿

I'm looking for the exact opposite functionality. The ability to make a specific notification never show up in halo. I like using Lux but the notification keeps showing up randomly in halo so I shut it off. Still though, halo is a fantastic addition and was sorely needed since the removal of the status bar from full screen mode.﻿

I hit my head on the wall each time i get +Paranoid Android update on g+ & don't see any successful PA halo port for galaxy note. Why did you do this to us? We also need you PA.Apk-tool has also refused to decompile these days. Dont force me to get a nexus device pls, i need my sdcard slot﻿

Is really an awesome job!!! thanks for do it as an app and free!!! now I'm working with the alpha 3 and I would like to use this daily, so I have to re install PA from recovery?? with the latest version stable??

It seems that there is a problem with WhatsApp. It opens normally in floating mode but when I open existing conversation it instantly switches to full screen. Still when I receive notification and open it from there it opens conversation in floating mode and works just fine. Hope that you will understand what I mean.﻿

+Paranoid Android there's a bug for me in alpha 5 on mako. When pressing the Halo of replies to this G+ post, the post pops up but the app I was in suddenly goes back to the desktop. Has anyone else experienced this﻿

+Paranoid Android is the app shortcut persistent? What I mean is, will it be there, even if we have a notification from the same all, or is it possible to hide the shortcut, as long as we have a notification from the app? Or possibly just show a little counter of some sort. Thanks ﻿

+Juan Medina the app will work with stock ROM yes. But it will not give you HALO. The app simply allows you to create persistent notifications in the notification shade.

Also, yes...if you want the latest build version, you would need to flash PA through recovery. Remember to flash the pa_gapps as well and to wipe cache and dalvik cache. No need to wipe data or factory reset.﻿

+abishek deiveekan dude, for the millionth time they will not support non nexus devices. Just wait for a port when the code drops and battery life has absolutely no spot in this thread. There could be a million reason your battery is bad, but none of those reasons involve halo﻿

+David Young install paranoid android. you don't need to root. you unlock your bootloader, which is a button you have to press in your actual google stock firmware and thats that.

ps."rooted devices" is the only shame. its the saddest thing. why would anyone smash a nexus by rooting stock android is beyond me. it makes absolutely no sense. nexus roms are pure aosp, that means google stock with clean/integrated additions. root shit cracks into your environment with a claw hammer.﻿

+Akhmad Sofyan it will go into pac when the source is out, which will happen when its safe and clean. until then its a local thing we're developing and pa users get to preview it. i don't quite understand why people flash things like pac and jellybam, considering they're pretty much always shut out of all the innovations that are being made in all three roms that are stuffed in there but ok, choices, why not﻿

+Paranoid Android Absolutely loving halo at the moment. I like having it placed near the bottom right corner so that it's right next to my thumb. The only issue is that it gets in the way slightly when the keyboard is out so an auto hide setting for when thekeyboard is being displayed would be amazing. Thanks for all your hard work. ﻿

+Enrico Furnari we don't touch the camera at all. we use googles. there are no known bugs, nothing to fix. if youre running a port on a non nexus device - thats not our rom and different rules apply to these.﻿

+Stjepan Maršić all we can do is flag the intents that the app gives us as floating. if the app,within, decides to launch further apps we can't go in there and flag these. apps in android are not one thing, they consist of parts or "activities." the list youre referring to is an activity, an app within the app so to say. whatsapp starts that app as a new process with a fullscreen intent - no dice for us.in future we may be able to do something about this but this get very complex fast and given that we still have basic issues to fix this is low priority.﻿

+Paranoid Android the reason I choose to flash PAC and weird conglomerate ROMs is unfortunately I don't have a nexus device (sad face) so I am locked out of your innovation. Cyanogenmod nightlies hardly every change much feature wise, and AOKP just never runs well on my device. These conglomerates give me a ROM with good personalization. But if I had the option to just unlock my boot loader and get official PA, I would in a heart beat. You guys are really innovating, stuff that I am sure has Google's eye by now﻿

Hi guys ! First, congratulations for your amazing Work. Then, i wanna know, i ever use PA on my GS3 and now i'm on the GS4 (i9505) and want to know if a close release for the i9505 is on the way. And again, thanks a lot for all you do ! ﻿

+Mehdi Bouchelaghem well look at you and your fancy new phone (kidding)The PA guys only support nexus and oppo5...don't think they can give you and eta on this. Best thing would be to keep an eye on xda forums for a port for your device﻿

Just read +Andrei Luswarghi explanation & figured out why it's not working for me and now I'm feeling stupid. Lol. Oh well, guess I'm back to waiting for the beta release of halo so I can switch to PA :p﻿

+Daniel Johansson depends what version, check your model on xda and see, i think theres only a crappy build for the international so far, will have to wait for the beta to come out for any other ports﻿

+Daniel Johansson There is no official maintainer for any device other than nexus devices and the oppo find 5, all other devices are not officially supported so you need to check your corresponding section of XDA Developers and either find the developer that is unofficially porting for you or ask a developer to unofficially port for you. As of right now no device outside of Nexus and Oppo have true Halo features because it is still Alpha and therefore not open source yet. Any non-nexus/oppo device that has Halo is just a hacked and shoehorned version from one of the nexus devices merged onto the unsupported device.

Hopefully all others planning on asking this overasked question will read this and understand.﻿

+Paranoid Android Just installed the 13th May Grouper build thank you. While I like the option to hide the Halo after a period of inactivity. Could an option be added to keep the Halo onscreen if the latest notification has not been read? Also an option to adjust the amount of time it takes before the Halo is hidden. Thanks for all your hard work.﻿

+Jeremy Kaminski ... Dude, what are you even talking about. I'm sure you're assistance is appreciated in the cases where you actually do provide it, but you really need to curb the attitude on some of your responses. Obviously +Daniel Johansson is aware that PA does not maintain for his phone and he also already indicated that he found a build on xda for his device.

If you feel the need to correct people all the time, please ensure that you are in fact fully aware of what you're saying. While PA does not officially support other devices like you said, there are in fact "Official Maintainers" at present and PA even went as far as to create a sign up form so as to get some more "Official Maintainers".

---snippet from previous PA post---

Legacy devices/Device maintainers

Though our support is usually concerned with AOSP compliant devices, we do offer legacy branches which currently hold a GS3 variant and the Asus transformer and help porters getting PA onto their devices cleanly.

If you port Paranoid Android we would like to invite you to become official maintainers, this will get you access to the official +Goo.im account and commit permissions to our legacy branches.

+Paranoid Android Has anything been changed in the app men on Grouper? There seems to be a lot of wasted screen space in portrait. Preferred it the way it was. Or I could be losing my marbles of course and nothing has changed﻿

+Curtis Mayers Attitude? I politely explained everything anyone could possibly need to know about ports and where non-official devices are at when it comes to halo. The last comment was because there are like 2 dozen people constantly asking when a build for "x" device will be ready after being told 9000 times there device will never be officially supported. It had nothing to do with Daniel. I suggest you stop making assumptions. I was just trying to give an in-depth explanation that hopefully helped not only Daniel but to keep others from asking the same thing over and over.﻿

Great! Halo is great.Just an idea, can you add the ability to pin halo circle in a position only for the launcher home to design home screens... I know it s a work in progress but it s an idea for the future of halo.﻿

Thanks for the quick reply. We are just trying to help you improve your amazing work. I m waiting my credit card to be able to purchase your application to support your work. Thanks for everything you do.﻿

Idk if this has been discussed (there are literally hundreds of comments to read through) but as far as UI how hard would it be to implement a sort of "web" look to Halo? Bear with me cause I might butcher this explanation:

When you double tap Halo (say it's on the left side of your screen) you get all the notification bubbles sort of pop out around it in a spherical manner. So if there's 4 other notifications the latest one is in the center and the others appear as bubbles in a clockwise fashion around that and still holding your finger down you can move to the one you want.

I know you said you debated a long time and scrapped a few UI ideas and I really do love Halo, but this current implementation seems like it could be expanded so much more. Thank you for your hard work and I hope you don't take what I said the wrong way. I really do love the work you guys are putting into this. ﻿

+Hector Sanchez How about this: double tapping Halo and moving your finger vertically up and down will still do what it does right now, but if you move your finger away from Halo horizontally, then all the notifications will pop up like you said. That way, if you don't want to see all the notifications, you can still just scroll vertically.. ﻿

Just found a handy root app to hide persistent notifications which end up being shown in Halo. Sometimes you don't want these. For instance I have Smart stay EX on my Nexus 7 which always shows in the notification shade, which in turn shows in Halo tasks. Install this and simply untick the app http://goo.gl/RCzyt. Hope you guys find it useful.﻿

+Nadir Comoglu Even better! I know some people like keeping their minimalist look. My big reason for this is because the way it currently is if I get an email and I don't have a picture from that contact, and say I have 3 of those like that, I just see the empty default contact pic and it's hard to discern where I'm at in the notifications list.﻿

+Paco Gallego It's quite simple, what you do is learn how to read. Note 2 is not a Nexus Device or the Oppo Find 5, that means it is not officially supported, that, in turn, means it does not have AOSPA 3.5 or Halo. If you had taken the time to read you would know that. No unsupported devices will get Halo until it hits beta and goes open source, then it's up to whoever is porting for your device to add it.﻿

+Paranoid AndroidI just had a little idea: You could add an option, that if you click the halo bubble a bubble for every notification appears and you can swipe through them. They could be stacked and transparent and only the focused notification gets highlighted in some way. This way it is easier to see directly which notifications are available at the moment. And perhaps another addition to that could be the possibility to flick any of the bubbles to the cross to hide that specific notification.Perhaps you like the idea. I think the idea gets interesting when you implement the whitelist, because without this the screen would be extremely cluttered if you have a lot of notifications.﻿

Hey +Paranoid Android I love the innovation you put in your ROM, I tried out an early version on Halo but then switched back to carbon while I wait you guys to sort out some of the stability issues. In response to a comment you made earlier that you do not understand why people flash jellybam or PAC because they don't have innovative features, I was just wondering which ROMs other than PA you think are innovative?﻿

Another question for +Paranoid Android or anyone really, why is it that some apps (mainly kik messenger) don't pop up in halo when a notification is received? Also when using some apps in halo mode they are cut off on the sides and top.﻿

I am on alpha halo5 with the latest Franco nightly kernel. I cannot get the halo circle to show at all; it does not show any flashing notifications, only the sound. I am currently running a nexus 4. Please help!﻿

So I have an issue and maybe it's a known issue. I cannot restore apps from Titanium Backup nor can I install an APK from file manager. It will being up the screen to install but touching the install button dies nothing. I can restore data only from TB though. I have USB debugging and unknown sources checked as well. Am I missing something?﻿

+Nick Scarantino Are you using the mms.apk coming with the ROM or another one (CM one for example)? I was having the same issue using the CM messaging app but all is fine since I use PA messaging app. ﻿

+Jeremy Kaminski Then why is there a port for the Huawei Ideos X6? :-)Maybe it's just not official supported.I didn't know as much as you about PA, sorri. x-DIt just could have been possible.Stranger. ﻿

How come halo is not working on my galaxy nexus toro? I just downloaded the may 14th build and I can't see the halo anywhere. I just see a few options in the toolbar settings. How do o enable it? This is becoming so infuriating I was looking forward to this feature so much and I can't even use it... Please help me.﻿

+Nick Darbouze if you can see the options for HALO then that's a good sign.You should know halo does not work in tablet UI.To activate..ensure you are not in full screen pie mode...pull down the notification shade and you should see a blue icon with a message box. Click it to activate HALO﻿

+Paranoid Android In later builds will old notifications be cleared from the Halo. For instance a Halo pops up to notify the user of an email. When hitting the Halo the email pops up and then the Halo clears. Cheers.﻿

+Brian Hillard well i see no reason for it. it seems to me people are just hung up on that concept. im reading this often now, 'whys the last notification in halo, its a bug, its not supposed to be like this!'all im asking is, why? why would it be better to display an empty circle just for the heck of it. i mean i can safely assume you're using for tasking, not ticking, otherwise you'd check the hide option.i see no wrong in knowing that was my last notification though. im just curious as to the motivations, thats all...﻿

+Diavee Hossain some apps do that deliberately. its an android feature called task_on_home. we filter this, but some apps can trick us by launching a windowless intent without, which in turn launches a windowed intent with task_on_home. mms did that before we killed it. no idea why though - it seems crazy to me. if i write an app, why would i even think of doing this shit i have no idea﻿

+Paul Henschel I don't think the auto hide is quite right yet as it's an alpha. With auto hide ticked in pie mode by the time you get to your tablet the Halo has disappeared, especially if you don't check your notifications immediately. With auto hide disabled I don't need Halo showing me I had an email hours previously, read and deleted. The same goes for installing apps. When I clear my notifications from the shade without Halo I don't expect them to stay there. Just my two cents worth mate :)﻿

I wonder if it could be useful to divert app notifications and show them as toasts. This would perhaps be a way to tame some of the more irritating halo trigger events. Don't know if this could be done.﻿

+Paranoid Android I´m adicted to PIE and fullscreen and want to use halo too. I don't want to have halo always on my home screen and I have used the setting to auto hide it but the thing is: Could it be possible to bring halo back with pie? We could use a button or pressing the notification area. Thanks in advance﻿

+Randy Braegger please... he said that halo WILL be open-sourced once it gets stable enough. If so, every rom, besides some stock-favorables, devs will, should, and have to put this thing in his/her rom cus otherwise, many people using that rom will keep asking for halo or stop using the rom and go to others.﻿

+Jungho Kook Thank you for your reply. I understand that it will be available for all ROMs. My question was whether Cydia Substrate would allow it to be used on the ROM already on your phone without flashing any new or updated ROM...﻿

+Randy Braegger Np. If someone makes this available for that way, yes. But, it's easier to just put it in a rom. Also, Cydia's main purpose is to get something that's not open-sourced nor available on you device, meaning why would anyone do that? I'm not trying to be rude to you, just in case you think so.﻿

+Jeffrey Homolak it's been like that from the introduction of HALO.It's due to a Google security feature that prevents installation when an overlay is active.Deactivate HALO, install your app, reactivate HALO.﻿

Been waiting for a more stable version, and finally decided to install alpha 5. So far I am loving it! The option to have it pop up only when I need it and then hide away is perfect. So far it has been an amazing experience. I don't know if you listen to issues reported here, but I get a force close in "tasker" with the notification showing my "tasker" active profiles as soon as I tap the halo with the tasker icon in it.﻿

However, I thought I'd share that I too am missing Facebook Messanger from the list. I noted +Nathanael Abbotts mentioned this earlier. I think someone said it may not be a full app (part of Facebook) but that doesn't seem correct, as Messenger is a separate app.﻿

+Curtis Mayers I did just that. Pretty good as a temporary solution. Thanks.

Another suggestion: how about some "persistent halos" in the future? It can house the notifications widgets, a clock, signal icon, or any other persistent notifications, each in their own separate, but partially hidden halos. Then we won't need the status bar at all.﻿

Its nice, but the whole ROM gets laggy after a while on my Toro. I love the features, but the butter is broken. I hope things get back to the smoothness as it was on 3.15. Maybe some speed would be nice too. ﻿

Having a problem with the lower part of the touch screen seemingly unresponsive in certain instances. For example trying to tap the text box to bring up the keyboard. Everything else is working great so far. ﻿

+Randy Braegger Android needs no root. cydia will not be able to run halo like it is, this is real programming work, all you would get via that or xposed is another hack. we have the nexus platform and aosp for a reason, you should support that not cydia.

when I read "without the hassle of installing roms" it's one big face palm. this is a worlds first, we have the biggest mobile operating system and its open source, it finally allows developers to implement ideas in a clean and easy way.... and people mess around with this hacky, complicated, low root shit, it's amazing. it's like they never got the news.nexus is opened with one click. a rom is installed with two. nexus roms are pure stock Android (aosp) with additions, it doesn't get any easier than this.﻿

+Curtis Mayers+Paranoid Android flashed alpha 5, the bug is still there: unfortunately stopped of Tasker when halo was switched to Tasker's notification. Could you please fix it in the coming version? Or, should I submit it to Tasker team?﻿

Switched from PAC to PA because of HALO (and because of the future awsome&creative things you would probably release).

I have a suggestion: when choosing "hide HALO after activity", HALO should disappear only after taking care of the notifications (currently it appears when a new notification arrives, and after a while goes away, so if the screen is off or I'm not looking for a few seconds - I miss the notification!)﻿

+Ilia Semenov nexus devices don't need to be rooted meaning... simply unlock the bootloader and flash a custom recovery. Then you can flash any ROM that is compatible with your device, including this.No need to root﻿

+Sébastien Lesieur+Jeremy Kaminski+Paranoid Android I updated my gapps to the 20130427 and it's still closing the background app. I installed an sms app cause they don't do it. I would prefer to just use the mms.apk app though cause i don't want extra apps to do basic stuff, but that's a pretty basic function that shouldnt be broken with a default app. ﻿

+Paranoid Android There are about a million comments, so forgive me if it's been covered. Is there a way (or do you have plans) to have multiple halos overlaying one another, with a gesture or double tap to dismiss the notification? Also, i'd love to see a way to keep Halo running/persistent when I dismiss all notifications. Seems if I delete one, and I am in pie, I have to re-enable the notifications bar, and then re-enable pie. ﻿

+Steve Messer you can currently open multiple windows from the bubble at the same time.I'm not quite sure what you mean by your second point. When you say delete one do you mean when you drag it over the x? The X is used to close halo completely, not to dismiss notifications. When you view a notification it is automatically dismissed, unless it's the last notification in the bubble. The halo itself is meant to be persistent with the option to hide after a period of inactivity

From your comments it sounds like you believe it functions with one bubble per notification.﻿

+Paranoid Android Suggestion. Make a visual effect in the Halo to let the user know there are no more notifications, and they can stop scrolling by then (maybe a red halo, as opposed to the blue animation)﻿

thank you again for good job here :) Halo is the future :)but i have a Q. is it posiible to get single "bubble" for every single notificaton? like if i have notification from gmail, imo and google+ so there is only one bubble and i need to swipe between.. but i would rly love to get three bubbles in row on top of my screen under status bar for example w/o for swaping between apps w/o swipe.. cause now, for me its faster to swipe status bar down and select notification which i want to see first﻿

Actually, after using the newest version of PA for a while, I can say that I'm quite impressed. This is a nice addition to the framework, and I can see it making a big difference when it's out of beta.

For now, I've identified some spots that are keeping me from adopting:

1. The default pie is not very attractive, and there's no way to change the color.2. I can't see network connectivity health from shade, so I have to disable pie mode in order to see it.3. Switching apps from halo is cumbersome, as it's hard to tell how many there are and where to move to get to the one I want. It feels somewhat like fishing something out of a bag without looking. I guess you scrapped the indicators on purpose, but it would be nice to have an alternative--maybe a simple preview of what's next/previous in the list?4. I would actually prefer to use the pop-up from the notification drop-down, as in the preview. I think this would be awesome to have. On a similar note, it would be cool to be able to launch a pop-up from the recents menu (by longpress, or something).5. I can't just disable soft keys from the settings--I am forced to disable the notification bar, as well.6. I miss the color tweaks and GPU overclocking from CM.

If all or some of these were changed/addressed, I would jump over from Cyanogenmod in an instant.

+Paranoid Android so no ones said it yet so I guess I'll be that guy lol...I know it just came out just reporting that hangout (talks) replacement doesn't fit in the window that opens when u bring up out of halo... :-)﻿

OK for the 5th time on alpha 5 halo has disappeared and doesn't come back period. I mean after a notification and all..my question is if I do a log cat now will it show what happened or is it already to late..I'm trying to do this before I reinstall everything to get it back...and no I do not have the disappearing halo feature activated﻿

I have this issue where all my calls, both incoming and outgoing, show up in halo mode only, even when i'm dialling from the phone app. More importantly, somehow, this causes the screen to not switch on when i get a call while the phone is in sleep. I have to unlock, pull down notifications, and open the incoming call notification to answer it. Any solutions? Had this on alpha 1 too. Running on a maguro, dirty flash.﻿

I'm using a port of this for the i9300. It's fantastic. I've noticed a couple of bugs though which could be yours or down to the porting. One is that if I change the navigation bar around then go into pie mode it crashes. Another is that when in pie mode and I exit an app to go to another then go back to the first, it has closed and needs to open from scratch again. For example, any text entered before swapping apps has been wiped﻿

I'm confused. I'm running PA, installed the addon but when I add apps to the list all that happens is they now show in my notification bar. Can't cycle through them in halo and can't hide them from notification bar without disabling then addon. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. ﻿

+Paranoid Android i've got a really awesome idea in my head that i'm trying to make in photoshop in the coming days. I think it really makes Halo even a more powerfull tool than it already is as of now. I'm not sure if it is even possible to achieve, but we will see if you like the idea and think it is doable. ﻿

Loving every minute of this, thanks devs. Can't wait to see the next version, maybe PIE/HALO customization. Will there be an option in the future to allow PIE on other modes (Phone/Hybrid/Tablet). I know some of the other roms have an option to expand but keep status bar visible. Also a quick question, I changed my colors to have my nova launcher have a transparent status and navbar but for some reason the navbar does not change while the status bar does. ﻿

I have a request... What of instead of having just one circle you click on it and multiple bubbles appear with the different notifications and you pick witch one you want to see then the bubbles collapse and hide﻿

Though I have some security concerns in regards to using it. Specifically, when on the lockscreen and swiping to the camera/going into a widget such as e.g. google keep, the halo is there.. Sometimes the gps tracking notification comes up, and you can access the settings page without entering any code by swiping on the halo to this icon.. Same goes for maybe an application you have pinned to halo which can take you to the settings page or some other part of the system.. You can pretty much bypass the whole lockscreen by this method. I'm holding off on using it until it gets somewhat fixed (a solution would be to just have it disabled in the lockscreen/apps, but I don't code so I have no clue if this is hard to implement or not).

Have to say that I very much appreciate the work you devs put in this rom, you always push the boundaries of android. Excited to see where you guys take it from here :)

+Joshua Hutt i think you are not that familiar with PA so far, because more than half of your concerns are already there, and some of those are made for testing already. You can also install your custom kernel.

So...1. False - you can change the colors of PIE through settings>hybrid properties.....

2. Initiate PIE then slide to southwest from your point of gravity there you have your quick settings you may put the tile for network connectivity though by default it is there. But i like your suggestion especially if the signal level is with the same representation that of the battery level it is faster :)

3. The determinacy is through sliding... You know say if you have 2 notifications then 1/2 1/2, if 3 then 1/3 1/3 1/3 and so on throughout the sliding segment. But your suggestion is nice that everytime you slide for notifications there will be some sort list view that comes up especially on full screen / PIE mode, i am not using on screen buttons they eat lots of space the main reason why i am using PA is because of their PIE and its flow.

4. i think it is out of my capabilities to answer, i am not sure what are the future plans of PA with that, and i cannot picture out the essence of your suggestion for now.

5. False - just go to settings > hybrid properties then set navbar workspace to 0%

6. Color calibration of PA default kernel is brilliant :), but you may use custom kernels and you use other apps for calibrating, simple as that.﻿

Didn't even realize they released a May 17th gapps...did you clear cache and dalvik cache? If you did then I'm not sure what else it could be. Google app issues are usually related to not updating/flashing pa_gapps.+Mohammad Ghashghavi ﻿

+Curtis Mayers found a solution. It had to do with uninstalling Google Play Services and reupdating it. I found a thread with other people having the same issue and it's fixed now. Thanks for your help tho :)﻿

Noticed another bug: if you have Halo running while downloading an item not in the App Store, then you cannot tap install. There may be no work around because the app installer won't let you install if you have some type of screen overlay on it... Just turn off halo﻿

+Spencer Bruce i think that is not really a bug, and i have read that few weeks ago even with previous posts so perhaps that is not new to the followers of PA, i am using Nexus Toolkit by WugFresh to install APKs﻿